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. >> following the loss, kerry immersed himself in foreign policy. >> we stand adjourned. >> now the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, he's been an unofficial envoy for president obama helping ease tension with president karzai in afghanistan and helping mend strained relations with pakistan after the killing of osama bin laden. >> we are strategic partners with a common enemy in terrorism and extremism. >> but kerry's not totally in sync with obama. he has supported limited military intervention in syria, something the president has resisted. over his 30-year career, kerry has built deep relationships with many foreign leaders. >> there are very few people in our country with greater experience over a longer period of time in foreign policy than senator kerry. >> perhaps kerry's biggest challenge to date is not his confirmation hearings on capitol hill, but rather following in hillary clinton's footsteps who has become one of the most popular officials in the obama cabinet both here and abroad. kate bolduan, cnn, washington. >>> 2012 was a wild year in sports from
. >> following the loss, kerry immersed himself in foreign policy. >> we stand adjourned. >> now the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, he's been an unofficial envoy for president obama helping ease tension with president karzai in afghanistan and helping mend strained relations with pakistan after the killing of osama bin laden. >> we are strategic partners with a common enemy in terrorism and extremism. >> but kerry's not totally in sync with...
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the problem of chuck hagel with support in the foreign policy community is shot at from the left and the right. >> i want to put it to you, both. is this the pattern where the trial balloons are getting defeated? first we have susan rice and that was arduous. until she took her name out of contention whatsoever. and now we see chuck hagel kind of going through the same thing on the onset. >> i agree with andrea's analysis. obama now is in a bad position if he does put forth hagel's name and a fight on the hands and then ask why bother? find someone else. >> bob, is that the same assessment you would give or does the president need to say, you know what? if this is the person that i want this is the person that i've got to go for and let the chips fall where they may? >> i think a big picture is president obama wants to lower the temperature in washington and why susan rice's names is withdrawn. that would have been a fight. i don't think he's seeking needless points and vowed to change washington. that didn't happen in the first term and tired of the showdowns and the fights with con
the problem of chuck hagel with support in the foreign policy community is shot at from the left and the right. >> i want to put it to you, both. is this the pattern where the trial balloons are getting defeated? first we have susan rice and that was arduous. until she took her name out of contention whatsoever. and now we see chuck hagel kind of going through the same thing on the onset. >> i agree with andrea's analysis. obama now is in a bad position if he does put forth hagel's...
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policies as firmly as john kerry. this makes him a perfect choice to guide american diplomacy in the years ahead. >> big news for the senior senator from massachusetts. tonight, kerry biographer professor douglas brinkley on the president's nominee for secretary of state. >>> bad news for red lobster and olive garden after they come out against obama care. we'll tell you how people are voting with their dollars. >>> and you won't see the real victims of the real war on christmas on the kirby couch. >> what do you make of the political correctness part of our culture? >> john nichols of "the nation" magazine on people who stand to suffer the most when we go over the fiscal cliff. you can prevent gas with beano meltaways, or treat gas with these after you get it. now that's like sunblock before or sun burn cream later. oh, somebody out there's saying, now i get it! take beano before and there'll be no gas. take beano before progressive direct and other car insurance companies? yes. but you're progressive, and they're th
policies as firmly as john kerry. this makes him a perfect choice to guide american diplomacy in the years ahead. >> big news for the senior senator from massachusetts. tonight, kerry biographer professor douglas brinkley on the president's nominee for secretary of state. >>> bad news for red lobster and olive garden after they come out against obama care. we'll tell you how people are voting with their dollars. >>> and you won't see the real victims of the real war on...
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is his foreign policy going to be obama boem's foreign policy? will his advice to the president be appreciatably different than hillary clinton's? >> well, in point of fact it will have to be barack obama's foreign policy. he is going to -- it's very difficult for senators to make this transition. he elizabeth be an employee. an employee with -- still an employee of the president. that said, i think sde have -- my impression is he does have a more active stance on i couple of key issues on reaching out to iran, on middle east peace process. i know that the president is not that interested in pursuing middle east peace process right now. he doesn't see a high chance of success. as a new secretary of state, of course, he wants to make his mark, and so you are going to see some conversation in the administration about what to make a priority. >> is he going to discover it's not a very nice plane. >> especially, yeah. >> from people like us. we've been there, done that. thank you, jeff goldberg. thank you so much. i know you're iffing to be there cov
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. >> i think it's fair to say few individuals, ministers grasp our foreign policies as firmly as john kerry. this makes him a perfect choice to guide american diplomacy in the years ahead. >> big news for the senior senator from massachusetts. tonight, kerry biographer professor douglas brinkley on the president's nominee for secretary of state. >>> bad news for red lobster and olive garden after they come out against obama care. we'll tell you how people are voting with their dollars. >>> and you won't see the real victims of the real war on christmas on the kirby couch. >> what do you make of the political correctness part of our culture? >> john nichols of "the nation" magazine on people who stand to suffer the most when we go over the fiscal cliff. the financial obstacles military families face, we understand. at usaa, we know military life is different. we've been there. that's why every bit of financial advice we offer is geared specifically to current and former military members and their families. [ laughs ] dad! dad! [ applause ] ♪ [ male announcer ] life brings obstacles.
. >> i think it's fair to say few individuals, ministers grasp our foreign policies as firmly as john kerry. this makes him a perfect choice to guide american diplomacy in the years ahead. >> big news for the senior senator from massachusetts. tonight, kerry biographer professor douglas brinkley on the president's nominee for secretary of state. >>> bad news for red lobster and olive garden after they come out against obama care. we'll tell you how people are voting with...
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romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has never been more clear that it really truly is not. >>> drones and modern instruments of war are important tools in our fight, but they are it no substitute for a national security strategy for the middle east. i'll restore the permanent presence of task forces in both the eastern mediterranean and the gulf. i'll restore our navy to the size needed by building 15 ships per year. the route to war and to potential attacks here at home is a politically-timed retreat that boons the afghan people to the same extremists who ravaged their country. i'll evaluate conditions on the ground and weigh the best adv
romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has...
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the obama foreign policy is a repudiation. pulling back in afghanistan. >> it's an extension. >> executive authority to run the war on terror. >> president's never give back authority. there was a rejection of the neoconservative of foreign policy. chuck hagel em bodies that. no to the neocons. >> true. getting back to a point you were making earlier. i have to say, i wish he would nominate his first choices. i think, for example in the case of susan rice, she had all this information and misinformation about hergs herself out there. she had to make amends for it. if you are going to slander someone, put them on the national stage to defend themselveses to the public. her public reputation is in ruins after this long career. whoever is the selection, own it and nominate them. >> one arm tied behind her back. she was the nominee. i know we don't know if susan rice was or was not the first choice. >> we should know. i would like a cabinet that looks like america. when susan rice isn't the first choice, who do we have? we have wh
the obama foreign policy is a repudiation. pulling back in afghanistan. >> it's an extension. >> executive authority to run the war on terror. >> president's never give back authority. there was a rejection of the neoconservative of foreign policy. chuck hagel em bodies that. no to the neocons. >> true. getting back to a point you were making earlier. i have to say, i wish he would nominate his first choices. i think, for example in the case of susan rice, she had all...
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but let me ask you on a policy level, how will this change america's foreign policy? >> i don't think the foreign policy is going to fundamentally change. i think the president is the principle foreign policy officer in this govlt. but i think john kerry will be there giving advice. i think we've had two brilliant secretaries of state in a row. what's really happened the last four years aside from all the headlines about osama bin laden, the drone strikes and the fact that we're ending the war in iraq is that we've been restoring respect for america around the world. i think kerry will make a huge contribution to that. >> now, believe it or not, just moments before the president was announcing his nomination of kerry, republicans were on the hill attacking susan rice over ben benghazi this afternoon. >> the word she told on 16, september was completely out of line with reality on the ground. i just thought she was very eager to tell a story that did not make a lot of sense. i believe to suggest this thing was anything other than a terrorist attack fit a political narr
but let me ask you on a policy level, how will this change america's foreign policy? >> i don't think the foreign policy is going to fundamentally change. i think the president is the principle foreign policy officer in this govlt. but i think john kerry will be there giving advice. i think we've had two brilliant secretaries of state in a row. what's really happened the last four years aside from all the headlines about osama bin laden, the drone strikes and the fact that we're ending...
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adequately funding america's foreign policy objectives is not spending. it's investing. >> joining me now, nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, of course, senator kerry, perhaps secretary of state to be john kerry, is talking about the fact that the state department usually does bear the brunt of spending cuts when these negotiations happen to try to cut spending when budget hits. and that's what some in the state department had blamed for the quote having to pick and choose and prioritize security at diplomatic posts. >> i think people are looking at it differently now because as you point out, often those budget battles tend to direct more money toward the department of defense. and people don't look at the state department security, at least up until this event, as having the same sort of u.s. protection component. so it has not gotten the same attention that some certainly democrats are pushing. also today, though, we're hearing from republicans frustration directed at those two deputy secretaries of state for why have they not spe
adequately funding america's foreign policy objectives is not spending. it's investing. >> joining me now, nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, of course, senator kerry, perhaps secretary of state to be john kerry, is talking about the fact that the state department usually does bear the brunt of spending cuts when these negotiations happen to try to cut spending when budget hits. and that's what some in the state department had blamed for the quote having to pick and...
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romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has never been more clear that it really truly is not. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where t
romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has...
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romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has never been more clear that it really truly is not. ou turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-tech masterpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. whatever your business challenge, when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more s
romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has...
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we will begin a new era for our country with a strong security system and trusted foreign policy. i will keep my promise to the people. >> reporter: park spent part of this day exchanging views with ambassadors from japan, the u.s., china and russia. she has already started moving to form her government. she'll meet with members of the present administration to go over issues. a transfer commission will finalize her policies. then in february she'll officially become the first woman in south korea to be president. >>> voters in south korea thought about the power of conglomerates when they cast ballots. many are frustrated that the big business blocks are elbowing out small and medium-size companies. they want their next president to level the playing field. we'll take a more in-depth look into that issue on friday. >>> japan's next leader has been dialing up the pressure on central bankers. he says they need to do more to shore up the economy. officials at the bank of japan emerged from two days of meeting and agreed to pump money into the economy for the fifth time this year. po
we will begin a new era for our country with a strong security system and trusted foreign policy. i will keep my promise to the people. >> reporter: park spent part of this day exchanging views with ambassadors from japan, the u.s., china and russia. she has already started moving to form her government. she'll meet with members of the present administration to go over issues. a transfer commission will finalize her policies. then in february she'll officially become the first woman in...
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. >> joining us is mark oliveri, a defense and foreign policy reporter with congressional quarterly. what are some of biggest issues the committee has to deal with in this 2013 programs bill? >> well, i'm sorry. i didn't hear your question. i think you asked the big issues they're dealing with. what they've actually dealt with, pretty big things. congressman turner was able to get an amendment passed or adopted here that essentially would provide $160 million for the execution of what's called a chemistry and metallurgy replacement over los alamos. it's a program that the obama administration would like to delay, because it's a significant amount of cost, and at this time, they're trying to find ways to save money. this facility could cost between $3 billion and $6.5 billion and it looks like the committee has thrown its support behind this. this is the second sort of big ad that congressman turner, who is chairman of the strategic armed forces committee has been able to get into the bill. the other the idea of building an anti-missile battery on the east coast, a pretty big investme
. >> joining us is mark oliveri, a defense and foreign policy reporter with congressional quarterly. what are some of biggest issues the committee has to deal with in this 2013 programs bill? >> well, i'm sorry. i didn't hear your question. i think you asked the big issues they're dealing with. what they've actually dealt with, pretty big things. congressman turner was able to get an amendment passed or adopted here that essentially would provide $160 million for the execution of...
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and the final debate will be strictly on foreign policy. that's october 22nd in florida. bob schieffer of cbs is the moderator. be sure to catch this first debate life here on cnn. >>> 37 days from election day and new allegations of voter registration fraud, the complaints center around registration drives in florida, nevada, north carolina and colorado. they were performed by a consulting political consulting company hired by the republican national committee called strategic allied consulting. in colorado, a woman who may have worked for the company was videotaped trying to register only mitt romney supporters, take a look. >> yeah, hi. >> do you volt for romneyor obama? >> i thought you were registering voters a minute ago. >> i am. >> and who are you registering? >> all voters. >> i'm actually trying to register people for a particular party because we're out here in support of romney actually. >> and who's paying you for this? >> let me see, we're working for the county clerk's office. >> you cannot come out here and register one party, lady, are you working for the
and the final debate will be strictly on foreign policy. that's october 22nd in florida. bob schieffer of cbs is the moderator. be sure to catch this first debate life here on cnn. >>> 37 days from election day and new allegations of voter registration fraud, the complaints center around registration drives in florida, nevada, north carolina and colorado. they were performed by a consulting political consulting company hired by the republican national committee called strategic allied...
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was really tough on romney's foreign policy approach. listen to this. >> i pledged to end the war in iraq honorably. that's what we've done. some said that bringing our troops home last year was a mistake. they would have kept tens of thousands of our forces in iraq indefinitely without a clear mission. well, when your commander in chief, you owe the troops a plan. you owe the country a plan. and that includes recognizing not just when to begin wars but how to end them. today there are no americans fighting in iraq and we are proud of all the americans who served there. >> as a veteran we need a plan from romney. what do you think of what he said? >> i like the comment considering i was there last year. it's a real debate on the ground. it's true that governor romney has bush supporters and bush foreign policy members in his campaign. he was unsupportive of us getting out of iraq despite the fact we didn't have diplomat immuni immunity. that didn't enjoy diplomatic immunity. could have been tried by iraqi courts. i think the president ha
was really tough on romney's foreign policy approach. listen to this. >> i pledged to end the war in iraq honorably. that's what we've done. some said that bringing our troops home last year was a mistake. they would have kept tens of thousands of our forces in iraq indefinitely without a clear mission. well, when your commander in chief, you owe the troops a plan. you owe the country a plan. and that includes recognizing not just when to begin wars but how to end them. today there are no...
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of shifting foreign policies all across the globe. not just in one area. but i think most compelling comments referencing israel, nine former u.s. ambassadors, including some who are our ambassador to israel, say they show he's a strong supporter of israel, as we should be. they are our most important ally in that region. >> well, let's go to the neocons who i tend to go to battle with because i think they always liked the iraq war, i always hated it. i wonder about this insistence why we have to be so militarized as a country, so insistent on using our battlefield strength as our first diplomatic move. hagel's not of that belief. he's one of these guys like anwar sadat, like yitzchak rabin who've been to war and know it's an alternative. >> he's a foreign policy realist, which used to be quite a dominant strain here. and i think a lot of the reason the neocons are opposed to him now is because he was president bush's most strident critic, certainly within the republican party, an adamant critic of the war, and he just has the view th
of shifting foreign policies all across the globe. not just in one area. but i think most compelling comments referencing israel, nine former u.s. ambassadors, including some who are our ambassador to israel, say they show he's a strong supporter of israel, as we should be. they are our most important ally in that region. >> well, let's go to the neocons who i tend to go to battle with because i think they always liked the iraq war, i always hated it. i wonder about this insistence why we...
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for all practical purposes john kerry will certainly carry forward the foreign policy initiatives put forward by hillary clinton. they're on the same page on a lot of these issues but the president of the united states, as you know, carol, he determines u.s. international policy, national security, and john kerry will now have that mission. it opens up the senate seat in the state of maof massachusetts there's already been speculation that scott drown, the republican senator who was defeated by elizabeth warren in his bid for re-election, that scott brown will be the republican nominee. that special election i think is scheduled for around june of this year and there's already been a few democratic potential candidates who are thinking of challenging scott brown assuming scott brown runs for that senate seat, whether deval patrick, the governor of massachusetts, congressman ed markey, the long serving democratic congressman from massachusetts. there's been some other names mentioned as well, but it's going to have a political fallout as well as international fallout, but the bottom li
for all practical purposes john kerry will certainly carry forward the foreign policy initiatives put forward by hillary clinton. they're on the same page on a lot of these issues but the president of the united states, as you know, carol, he determines u.s. international policy, national security, and john kerry will now have that mission. it opens up the senate seat in the state of maof massachusetts there's already been speculation that scott drown, the republican senator who was defeated by...
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we are looking at foreign policy. newt gingrich did very well on foreign policy. mitt romney, as you see, below the line. i have to tell you he spent most of the night below the line. rick san giving good answers, as well as rick perry. ron paul, we have to tell you, ron paul spent the entire night in got answer question. on the issue of race, mitt romney way down again while newt gingrich was way up. those are the biggest spikes of the night. santorum, middle of the ground. same with perry. ron paul again, strong support. romney's record which was a big topic of the night. gingrich below the line. that was his talking about capital off the beginning with the first question. mitt romney spent the entire night below the line. and santorum as tell. ron paul again the only one giving straight answers on some of the topics. let's go to mitt romney himself. on the record, the green people thought he gave a good answer, red they thought he dodged the question. again, the majority below the line. same thing with economy, race. foreign policy, he was even with that. he ge
we are looking at foreign policy. newt gingrich did very well on foreign policy. mitt romney, as you see, below the line. i have to tell you he spent most of the night below the line. rick san giving good answers, as well as rick perry. ron paul, we have to tell you, ron paul spent the entire night in got answer question. on the issue of race, mitt romney way down again while newt gingrich was way up. those are the biggest spikes of the night. santorum, middle of the ground. same with perry....
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but it is such a funny place to give a foreign policy -- >> he might say that a number of times, but nobody really will get that. >> all right. maybe i should be quiet about it. >> yeah. >> another piece of news that came out today is that these women's groups, not just the traditional ones, but the democratized internet where young women are outraged by what they are seeing in these laws across the country, so they have caused state legislators to back down off of crazy bills. women who have gone active has caused these legislatures to step down. >> yeah. well, the first thing i say is we have to keep our foot on the gas pedal. because remember how we got here. we got this because all of this is going on behind cloaked door and then women get worked up when we hear about it. so we need to keep exposing it and it's a temporary reprieve -- >> it shows women what you can do if you get active. >> yes, and it helps them see what is at stake. because we think they couldn't really get that past could they? it's a much more diverse group of young women getting really involved. >> some of th
but it is such a funny place to give a foreign policy -- >> he might say that a number of times, but nobody really will get that. >> all right. maybe i should be quiet about it. >> yeah. >> another piece of news that came out today is that these women's groups, not just the traditional ones, but the democratized internet where young women are outraged by what they are seeing in these laws across the country, so they have caused state legislators to back down off of crazy...
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they are own foreign policy, their own security policy. so their headquarters is in the united states but they're not entirely american. >> what are you talking about. >> standard oil. that's america's great contribution to the world. it may be a multinational conglomerate but come on this is american oil. >> well, but it's drilled all over the world 256789% of exxon mobile's oil that they produced in the decade after 2,000 was produced in west africa, companies like chad, equatorial guinness, angola. >> stephen: isn't it like an american embassy, where they are drilling is technically america opinions they billed it that way. i traveled out in these countries and every exxon mobile compound looks the same it has the same security perimetre, the same lights. employees go in, stay for six weeks, they go in and out of the country almost without touching the country that they are working in. they also pay the salaries of the local military and police forces. >> stephen: so if i'm the president of an emerging country, okay, and we find out we'
they are own foreign policy, their own security policy. so their headquarters is in the united states but they're not entirely american. >> what are you talking about. >> standard oil. that's america's great contribution to the world. it may be a multinational conglomerate but come on this is american oil. >> well, but it's drilled all over the world 256789% of exxon mobile's oil that they produced in the decade after 2,000 was produced in west africa, companies like chad,...
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it will prevent us from having an effective foreign policy. there are some innate dangers and sometimes correct decisions will lead to people getting killed because that's the way the world works. in this case i think it's fair to ask if the state department should have made some better decisions. but i don't see it as the sort of thing that amounts to a huge error. it's worth going back and asking how we can prevent it from happening in the future, but it was not a huge error. >> do we want -- mr. crowley, do we want diplomats career people to become ambassador in tricky areas. do we want them to be the kind of people that go to benghazi to try to deal with the militia or do we want somebody who stays back in the protection of our embassy. what kind of guy or woman do you want? >> you want chris stevens and you want him exactly where he was. to senator corker's clip, ironically this was the state department thinking outside the box. chris stevens had been in benghazi in the midst of the civil war advising the rebel group that became eventuall
it will prevent us from having an effective foreign policy. there are some innate dangers and sometimes correct decisions will lead to people getting killed because that's the way the world works. in this case i think it's fair to ask if the state department should have made some better decisions. but i don't see it as the sort of thing that amounts to a huge error. it's worth going back and asking how we can prevent it from happening in the future, but it was not a huge error. >> do we...
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policy. >> we stand adjourned. >> reporter: now the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, he's been an unofficial envoy for president obama, helping ease tensions with president karzai in afghanistan and helping mend strained relations with pakistan after the killing of osama bin laden. >> we are strategic partners with a common enemy in terrorism and extremism. >> reporter: but kerry's not totally in sync with obama. he had supported limited military intervention in syria, something the president has resisted. over his 30-year career, kerry has built deep relationships with many foreign leaders. >> there are very few people in our country with greater experience than senator kerry. >> perhaps kerry's biggest challenge is not his confirmation on capitol hill but rather following in hillary clinton's footsteps. she's become one of the most popular officials in the obama cabinet, both here and abroad. and then it becomes the big political fight or at least political interest in who will fill the vacated senate seat of senator john kerry. >> she couldn't go there for the ann
policy. >> we stand adjourned. >> reporter: now the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, he's been an unofficial envoy for president obama, helping ease tensions with president karzai in afghanistan and helping mend strained relations with pakistan after the killing of osama bin laden. >> we are strategic partners with a common enemy in terrorism and extremism. >> reporter: but kerry's not totally in sync with obama. he had supported limited military...
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he's trail og bam only on foreign policy. in every other category except foreign policy and who's on your side, which is an important category, romney is either equal to ahead of the president on issues that people care about. especially on the economy. so, he wants to kind of close the gap a little bit if he can on foreign policy. get over that tlehreshold that y president needs to that they're comp tant to represent the united states. the danger to him, if he makes a gaffe, it could hurt his standing on foreign policy. >> i was going to ask you about that because when we had the situation with a blind dissident in china, mitt romney jumped out there making comments of the o obama administration and being criticized for that. he has, there's a danger that could happen to him again with two major actions happening right now. >> especially since we're in the midst of quick changing events. so, it's much easier if there's kind of a stationary target, then you can figure out your foreign policy. when things are kind of coming ap
he's trail og bam only on foreign policy. in every other category except foreign policy and who's on your side, which is an important category, romney is either equal to ahead of the president on issues that people care about. especially on the economy. so, he wants to kind of close the gap a little bit if he can on foreign policy. get over that tlehreshold that y president needs to that they're comp tant to represent the united states. the danger to him, if he makes a gaffe, it could hurt his...
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opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy. but from all that we've seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost america so dearly. after all, you don't call russia our number one enemy, not al qaeda, russia, unless you're still stuck in a cold war mind warp. >> joining us now is jeremy scahill my colleague at "the nation" where he is national security correspondent. great to have you here. it was really striking. yesterday we talked about the classic cultural war issues and how aggressive democrats seemed on things they had previously been on their heels about, things like marriage equality and choice for women and the immigration dream act. they seemed to be leading with that. and the same dynamic i think seemed to be true on foreign policy and national security, the invocation of osama bin laden, the ridicule -- there was almost this amazing reversal if you look at the 2004 republican convention to the 2012 democratic convention, here is -- i want to show, here is dick cheney in
opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy. but from all that we've seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost america so dearly. after all, you don't call russia our number one enemy, not al qaeda, russia, unless you're still stuck in a cold war mind warp. >> joining us now is jeremy scahill my colleague at "the nation" where he is national security correspondent. great to have you here. it was really striking....
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. >> foreign policy. go. >> i think there has to be a recognition on both sides -- >> here we go again with the both sides. >> yeah, i could be a bastard about it -- >> yeah, let's do that. >> too many people have been bastards about it. and that's why i'm stuck in the same place. rap as opposed to creating a diplomacy for both parties. how do you have certain jewish people who disagree wholeheartedly with zionists and that's on the jewish side. so you can't take just one side and say hey i don't agree with that because you are jewish. you have to take every part and piece. >> a lot of people might not know you are muslim right? >> yes. >> all right. so how did you get into this business? how did you get into hip hop? >> since high school started rapping in high school. decided i didn't want to go to college, but i still needed to eat. luckily got a record deal as a senior in high school, and the rest is history. went through different record deals and finally got my first release in '06. got a couple of
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this is a very strategic move when it comes to our foreign policy. obama plans to use kerry. see, he will bore our enemies to death. >> we will discuss the kerry pick and more challenging cabinet options next on "now." excuse me, sir i'm gonna have to ask you to power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24/7. sounds a little too good to be true sir. i'll believe that when pigs fly. ok, did she seriously just say that? geico. just click away with our free mobile app. >> nbc has confirmed that john kerry has been selected by president obama to be his next secretary of state. kerry's nomination has been one of the worst kept secrets in washington and had been held up by a range of factors, including this chaos in congress. last night the five-term senator was spotted making a rare appearance on the house floor shaking hands and chatting with democratic members, so then whe
this is a very strategic move when it comes to our foreign policy. obama plans to use kerry. see, he will bore our enemies to death. >> we will discuss the kerry pick and more challenging cabinet options next on "now." excuse me, sir i'm gonna have to ask you to power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside...
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>> after a day spent talking foreign policy in new york, the president will shift gears in ohio. the campaign is not ignoring other battleground states. >> instead of attacking folks who work for a living, shouldn't we stand up for them? >> other signs that the economy may be moving in the right direction, home values are up, and so our housing prices in some of the countries biggest cities. hallie jackson, wbal-tv 11 news. >> we are learning of a new shooting inside baltimore city line speed police found a 23- year-old man at milton ave shot several times. the victim was taken to the hospital. police are searching for a suspect. all baltimore city man unexpectedly dies after being taken into police custody, and his family wants answers. anthony anderson died friday night after a confrontation with police in baltimore. according to his family, he was on his way to celebrate his granddaughter's birthday when the officers assaulted him. detectives assigned to the violent crimes impact division say that is not what happened at all. >> they observed him put what was suspected to be s
>> after a day spent talking foreign policy in new york, the president will shift gears in ohio. the campaign is not ignoring other battleground states. >> instead of attacking folks who work for a living, shouldn't we stand up for them? >> other signs that the economy may be moving in the right direction, home values are up, and so our housing prices in some of the countries biggest cities. hallie jackson, wbal-tv 11 news. >> we are learning of a new shooting inside...
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did we go too right on taxes, immigrati immigration, foreign policy or were we too moderate, not ideological enough? one thing you can never be wrong on. if you lose, you can't brag. if you lose, everybody gets in, everything you did and nobody's going to admit he's wrong or she's wrong. joy reed is managing editor and jonathan is a bloomberg view columnist, both are msnbc plirt c political analysts. it seems like if you look at the trial balloons for 2016, you see the two directions in the party. there's people like rubio down in florida who's talking about the seven days of creation again. and then you've got on the other end of the world, you've got chris christie talking about how many days it's going to take us to clean up this mess from sandy. one's living in the secular real world. one's off in that theological, ideological ethereal world that the right likes to get into. joy, you're shaking your head. they haven't decided whether to go sky high into ideology with the old testament or to try to become a more modern party yet. >> i think you picked the right person to focus on, rubio,
did we go too right on taxes, immigrati immigration, foreign policy or were we too moderate, not ideological enough? one thing you can never be wrong on. if you lose, you can't brag. if you lose, everybody gets in, everything you did and nobody's going to admit he's wrong or she's wrong. joy reed is managing editor and jonathan is a bloomberg view columnist, both are msnbc plirt c political analysts. it seems like if you look at the trial balloons for 2016, you see the two directions in the...
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and that's one of the tragedies, i think, of our foreign policy and our domestic policies as played out over the last several years. [applause] >> so the book ends with me traveling back to africa. and retracing then the steps that my father took and my grandfather took. my grandfather as those of you who have read the book or will read the book will discover was actually the first african in his village and in his circle ever to meet a white person. and almost immediately he had to confront what it meant to be drawn from a 15th century world into the 20th century world in the span of a single lifetime, and the enormous contradictions that he had to grapple with he ended up passing on to my father, and those contradictions my father has then passed on to me. the boy said that the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line. i think that oversimplifies it. it's not just a color line. it's class lines and gender lines and sexual orientation lines and religious lines. but i call this book a story of race and inheritance because the inheritance, the most important inheritan
and that's one of the tragedies, i think, of our foreign policy and our domestic policies as played out over the last several years. [applause] >> so the book ends with me traveling back to africa. and retracing then the steps that my father took and my grandfather took. my grandfather as those of you who have read the book or will read the book will discover was actually the first african in his village and in his circle ever to meet a white person. and almost immediately he had to...
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to my immediate right is john pfeffer, who is co-director of foreign policy and focus at the institute for policy studies. he's also a 2012 open society fellow looking at the transformation atransfor ma transformati transformations across eastern europe. he has also been a writing fellow at the provisions library in washington, d.c., and a fellow at in korean studies at stanford university. mariusz f.d.mikilus is president of strategy international based in greece. he is a nato specialist who is a former visiting scholar at the center for transatlantic relations. currently a research fellow at the george washington business school and the e.u. center of excellence in washington, d.c. he has a book coming out on nato's security future in greece. i think just from their resumes you can see they've each got a lot to offer on this particular top topic. i'll be asking them to speak for 10 to 12 minutes, and i shall be playing the role of the wicked witch if they look like they're going over time. julie, start with you, please. >> great. thank you very much. thank you for the invitation. it'
to my immediate right is john pfeffer, who is co-director of foreign policy and focus at the institute for policy studies. he's also a 2012 open society fellow looking at the transformation atransfor ma transformati transformations across eastern europe. he has also been a writing fellow at the provisions library in washington, d.c., and a fellow at in korean studies at stanford university. mariusz f.d.mikilus is president of strategy international based in greece. he is a nato specialist who...
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foreign policy in any sense of that word. lou: presumably he will not be easily concussed and therefore not available for the congress for discussion of policy and of events taking place on his watch. isn't it a bit, just a little, i don't know, callous for the presint to name the successor of thh secretary of state before she really resigned while convalescing? seems somehow cold to me. unmeggsal. >> perhaps, lou, i know you're a very sensitive soul. lou: thank you, screwed did. what are you laughing about, hayes? >> perhaps he wants her to step down so when she is being grilled on capitol hill about benghazi she is no longer secretary of state. >> lou, perhaps the president is trying to show his deep pressure shun for all of the hillary clinton showed susan rice which was the original choice for secretary of state. lou: there is that. reciprocity makes the political universe of washington go around. we'll go around. back with the a-team in just moments. we'll take up, we'll find out why the nra seems to be the most effectiv
foreign policy in any sense of that word. lou: presumably he will not be easily concussed and therefore not available for the congress for discussion of policy and of events taking place on his watch. isn't it a bit, just a little, i don't know, callous for the presint to name the successor of thh secretary of state before she really resigned while convalescing? seems somehow cold to me. unmeggsal. >> perhaps, lou, i know you're a very sensitive soul. lou: thank you, screwed did. what are...
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not just about israel, but to me, the most significant foreign policy challenge for president obama and our country and the world in the next year or two is iran and it's nuclear weapons program. chuck hagel has had some very outlying votes on that. he's been -- >> he wants to establish communication. >> he's been consistently -- i think in that sense anybody who tries to communicate with iran has run into a brick wall, and chuck hagel has consistently been against economic sanctions to try to change the behavior of the islamic regime, the radical regime in tehran, which is the only way to do it short of war. so, in fact, as i look at chuck hagel's positions on iran, they seem to me to be quite different than president obama. now, president obama obviously has earned the right to naum night whoever he wants. i think this is a very tough confirmation process. i don't know how it would end, but there are reasonable questions to ask and that chuck hagel has to answer. >> finally in our last minute i need you to solve the fiscal cliff problem. specifically we all know that the speaker left.
not just about israel, but to me, the most significant foreign policy challenge for president obama and our country and the world in the next year or two is iran and it's nuclear weapons program. chuck hagel has had some very outlying votes on that. he's been -- >> he wants to establish communication. >> he's been consistently -- i think in that sense anybody who tries to communicate with iran has run into a brick wall, and chuck hagel has consistently been against economic...
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foreign policy, one of the hardest challenges i think for our decision-makers in the relationship with iran and the non-relationship with iran as we might say. i thought we might begin that discussion with some, to just put, to explain to our listeners, why and how you wrote the book, some of the mythological issues so we get that straight before we get into some of it very vividly told stories of this 30 years of u.s. iranian engagement from the perspective of our military-to-military interaction. so i wonder if we could just start with -- telesort of why you wrote the book and how you wrote it considering that you are a government historian and this book was really done through different methodology. >> guest: the genesis of it started as a dissertation many years ago back in the '90s on reagan's foreign-policy in the persian gulf. one of the catalyst for me as far as an interest in the region itself was my father had been the u.s. central commander from 85 to 88, the u.s. military command for the middle east. obviously that sort of spurred an interest even though i was a young lieut
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good to see you, too. >> susan, foreign policy, mitt romney's had a difficult dance on foreign policy thus far. we know that he misinterpreted yesterday a comment made in a conversation with the australian foreign minister, bob carr. he called russia our number one geopolitical enemy and his comments about his aggressive stance on china i think among some circles, even among conservative circles and specifically henry kissinger have worried some of those folks who understand the delicate nature of our relationship with china. where would you put him on the foreign policy sort of learning curve at this point? >> well, i have to tell you, it makes it a little bit surprising that they're choosing to jump into foreign policy in the middle of the campaign right now. it's not seen as a strong point, certainly the polls don't suggest it's a voting issue. it's number 14 on the list of things voters are concerned about this year. and also, i think it may tend to underscore romney's sort of inconsistent and not fully formed views as a candidate. hopefully he won't wear the beret you're talking
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policy are bush foreign policy people. and president obama has frankly not even hit mitt romney yet for the way his foreign policy apes the catastrophic foreign policy of the bush/cheney years. the romney campaign knows that punch is coming, right? how do they inoculate themselves against that? how does the romney/ryan campaign protect itself against the other shoe that everybody knows is about to drop, which is the withering allegation that if you squint at romney and ryan on foreign policy, what you know you're going to get is act ii of the bush and cheney foreign policy. what's their defense on that? really? paul ryan does a photo op today with condoleezza rice. was paul wolfowitz not available? yeah, they had paul ryan go to a cleveland brown football practice, a practice at which paul ryan misidentified the cleveland browns quarterback and called him by the wrong name in front of a whole bunch of reporters. and then ryan pleaded for mercy when he noticed his mistake. but look, i'm here with the smoking gun could be a
policy are bush foreign policy people. and president obama has frankly not even hit mitt romney yet for the way his foreign policy apes the catastrophic foreign policy of the bush/cheney years. the romney campaign knows that punch is coming, right? how do they inoculate themselves against that? how does the romney/ryan campaign protect itself against the other shoe that everybody knows is about to drop, which is the withering allegation that if you squint at romney and ryan on foreign policy,...
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is that the way he is conceptualize in his view of foreign policy? to a certain extent yes but he is trying to tack to the center. one of the key allies of richard nixon who gets discussed here because his big book comes out during spring of 1952 is whitaker chambers who writes a very melodramatic memoir witness, that is published in 1952 and richard nixon does great deal when richard nixon was taking down alger hiss, whitaker chambers was the key person providing testimony to take down alger hiss and nixon does a lot to promote whitaker chambers's book and it is interesting to note how chambers conceptualizes the cold war in witness that comes out in 1952. i will quote from the book. for chambers the west had to discover, quote, in suffering and pain, a power of faith which will provide man's mind at the same intensity and the same two certainty is that communism provided. a reason to live and the reason to die. if it fails, if the west fails, this will be the century of the great social wars. if it succeeds this will be the century of the great war
is that the way he is conceptualize in his view of foreign policy? to a certain extent yes but he is trying to tack to the center. one of the key allies of richard nixon who gets discussed here because his big book comes out during spring of 1952 is whitaker chambers who writes a very melodramatic memoir witness, that is published in 1952 and richard nixon does great deal when richard nixon was taking down alger hiss, whitaker chambers was the key person providing testimony to take down alger...